A heart that was.......

And were you fain , my cloistered heart,
with the unsaid, unheard and ungained ,
when the world embraced, kissed ,and said it
was'nt your silence the string that pained ?
Can we sever the cord that binds,
and will we set that wish on fire
when in a pulsing, stand-still moment
you'll be the `longing' and me `desire' ??

Love-Chess

The instant that they pop the question
and the moment that we say `yes'
gods say` let the sport begin'
that goddamned game of chess.

It's not that we do not try
to decline the queen's gambit
the `move' is by then too, too strong
to let us out of ambit .

We lose our pawns , we lose our rooks
unaware, benighted yet unseen
we thrust and parry and still we are
lanced a-back by the wily queen .

In this bootless game of you and me
I am just the feckless king
itemised, numbered ,by myself
forlorn, and waiting in the wing .

Am castled in that darkened corner
so vulnerable to the shiny knight
unlaced ,stripped , without an armour
A Lear , abandoned in the night.

I full well know how it ends
sooner ,or maybe, a little late
I'll be toppled, usurped ,uncrowned
sheepish ,silent , in my mate.......

Gravity's Rainbow

Too long, too long
that I've dwelt
in the half way house
of the could have been
tethered to the ah-may be
baulked by the should have been.
Be it that I'll ever touch
an assuring blush of being;
and be it that I'll ever reach
that softened glow of seeing ?
A naiad will then sooth my brow
and no more will I pine
coz she'll quietly lend her words
when I am done with mine .
May be that'll make me float
unchained ,unshackled, far above ,
gathered for sure by tender arms
in the zero-pull of total love...